fnf@well.UUCP (Fred Fish) (09/05/86)
Well, it's been awhile since the last batch of disks, so here is another set for all you hungry people to munch on. Note that the price of disks has been cut 40% (50% for 10 or more). This is because: (1) When I first started doing distribution, disks were costing me $45 to $55 for a box of 10. Now disks can be had for $15 to $20 in quantity. (2) Previously, in order to track down as much software as possible (what little was out there) I had phone and BBS charges that were approaching my house payment. Now I get a lot of software sent to me by people who want to help by contributing something to the library. (3) Finally, it has always been my intention to keep this as much non-profit as possible (or at least low-profit :-), but I have to be careful that that I don't end up subsidizing it with anything other than my time. For those that have current credit balances, your credit will be drawn against at the new rate, with the mailing of disks 31 and up. Now, for the standard "blurb" that most of you are probably sick of by now ... WHAT'S AVAILABLE ---------------- There are "do-nothing-useful" examples of various capabilities of the AMIGA, real development tools, editors, languages, games, and other odds & ends. Also included are machine readable form of many of the examples (received directly from C-A sources) out of the official AMIGA manuals, including the 1.1 ROM Kernel Manual. HOW TO OBTAIN DISKS ------------------- First, check with your local dealers and user groups. Many already have the earlier disks. Since these disks can be copied freely, and widespread distribution is encouraged, they propagate out to central distribution points fairly quickly. If you just can't wait, or can't find copies locally, I am willing to make these disks available for the cost of media, mailing materials, postage, and miscellaneous expenses (like wear and tear on my drives). My goal is to get as much software as possible into the hands of people that can use and enhance it, and make the AMIGA the success it deserves to be. Each disk contains all source necessary to recreate the executables provided. All programs are currently compiled with the latest Lattice C and/or Manx C compiler available at the time of release. In a very few cases (noted in the description) the code will not compile or run for some reason, but was considered interesting enough to include anyway. Almost all executables are known to run on the latest kickstart/workbench combination available at time of release. Disks are typically 85 to 95 percent full. HOW TO ORDER ------------ To order, send a list of the disks you want, and $6 per disk ($5 per disk for 10 or more disks), in U.S Funds to: Fred Fish 1346 W. 10th Place Tempe, Arizona 85281 (602) 921-1113 (Sorry, I can only return calls collect.) well!fnf Time and other jobs permitting, all disks will be mailed via first class mail within 5 days of receipt of order. Feel free to order more the the current number of disks available. Excess funds will be placed "in escrow" (refundable at any time) and drawn against for automatic mailings of future disks as they become available. I hope to add at least two to four disks per month to the library. Given that I have a database of about 300Mb of freely distributable software to draw upon, that should be a fairly easy goal to accomplish. DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA --------------------- To the best of my knowledge, materials in this library are freely redistributable. This means that they have met one or more of the following conditions: (1) The materials contains explicit copyright notices permitting redistribution. (2) The materials were posted to a publically accessible electronic bulletin board and did not contain any copyright notice. (Such materials will be removed if it is subsequently shown that copyright notices were illegally removed.) (3) The materials were posted to a widely disseminated electronic network (such as usenet), thus implying that their author/poster intended them to be freely distributed. This applies only if they contain no notice limiting distribution. (4) The materials contain an explicit notice placing them in the public domain. This is not the same as condition (1). ====================================================================== Itemized contents of disks 31-35 follows, in reverse order. ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 35 (tentative) ------------------- This disk is still under construction but should be finished in the next couple of days. One thing this disk will have, and **YOU WANT THIS** is a public domain release of the Triclops Invasion game by Geodesic Publications. This was previously a commercial product (see page 105 of Sept/Oct Amiga World for ad), and the publisher has decided to release it as PD to help promote their new version currently under development. Just got it today, and it is by far the best available public domain graphics oriented game that I have seen for the Amiga (I'm talking here about action games, not necessarily strategy games like Hack). CONTENTS OF DISK 34 ------------------- Alint Support files for Gimpel lint to make it useful on the Amiga. Author: Thomas Althoff Blink A linker written as a replacement for Alink. Fully Alink compatible and supports many additional options not found in Alink. Also is much faster than Alink and generates smaller executable files. Version 5.7 Author: Combined efforts of the Software Distillery Browser Updated version of the browser program released on disk number 18. This one has been "manxified", has scroll bars, and several bugs fixed. Author: Mike Meyer, enhancements and fixes by Bob Leivian Btree Routines to implement a B-tree algorithm and several accompanying tests, apparently derived from the single file version also included on this disk under "Btree2". Still buggy, but looks useful with a little work. Author: Richard Hellier, posted to usenet by Steve Jefferson Btree2 Previous (original) version of btree routines. Author: Richard Hellier Calendar Appointment calendar that lets you visually add and update appointments. Can also run in background and remind you 15 minutes before any scheduled event. Author: Unknown, Amiga port by Bob Leivian Less Like Unix "more", only better, with forward and backward scrolling, searching and positioning by percent of file and line number, etc. Very useful! Author: Mark Nudelman, Amiga port by Bob Leivian NewFonts Set of 28 new Amiga fonts. Author: Bill Fischer Pr A background print utility with several options for letter quality compressed mode and line numbers. Also takes multiple files and wildcards. Author: Bob Leivian Requester A file name requester that looks like the one used in Deluxe Paint, and a sample program for using the requester. Author: Kevin Clague CONTENTS OF DISK 33 ------------------- 3dstars 3d version of Leo's "stars" program (also on this disk). Author: Leo Schwab Bigmap Program which demonstrates how to use the low-level graphics calls, ScrollVPort especially. Demonstrates scrolling around inside a very big bitmap. Author: Leo Schwab Dbuf.gels Sample program that demonstrates the animation routines for Bobs and VSprites. Uses double buffering to smooth the display motion. Author: David Lucas DiskMapper Displays sector allocation of floppy disks. Author: Leo Schwab MemView Program which sets up a direct window into RAM, thus dynamically displaying the contents of memory. Author: Leo Schwab Oing Displays a window full of little bouncing balls. Author: Leo Schwab ScreenDump Dumps rastport of highest screen/window to printer. Author: Carolyn Scheppner Sdb Simple database program, originally released on a DECUS VAX SIG tape. Author: Unknown, Amiga port by Mic Kaczmarczik Sproing Same as Oing but includes sounds of balls colliding with boundries. Author: Leo Schwab Stars Displays a screen full of stars, reminiscent of a view from the starship Enterprise's flight deck. Author: Leo Schwab TermPlus Yet another variant of Michael Mournier's AmigaTerm program. This one includes improved ascii capture, CRC and checksum xmodem protocol transfers, CompuServe B-protocol transfers, a phone library, function key support, and limited AmigaDOS functions. Author: Enhancements by Bob Rakosky Vt100 Release 2.0 of Dave's version of AmigaTerm. Includes support for function keys and script files. Author: Enhancements by Dave Wecker and Steve Drew. CONTENTS OF DISK 32 ------------------- Address Extended address book written in AmigaBasic. Author: Mark Hurst Calendar Calendar/diary program written in AmigaBasic. Author: Mark Hurst DosPlus1 First volume of CLI oriented tools for developers. Executables only. Author: Bill Beogelein DosPlus2 Second volume of CLI oriented tools for developers. Executables only. Author: Bill Beogelein MacView Allows viewing of a standard MacPaint picture file in either Amiga low resolution (320 x 200) or high resolution (640 x 400). Executable only. Author: Scott Evernden Puzzle Simulation of puzzle with moving square tiles. Executable only. Author: Bill Beogelein ShowHAM Program to display HAM (Hold And Modify) mode images from the CLI environment. Executable only. Author: Unknown Solitaire Two new ABasiC games, Canfield and Klondike. Author: David Addison Spin3 Simple program that creates spinning cubes and transforms them into op-art. Example of how to create a double buffered display with color tables that can be changed. Author: Ronald Peterson Sword Sword of Fallen Angel. Text adventure game written in AmigaBasic. Author: Andry Rachmat Trails Cute little program that leaves a trail behind the pointer when the mouse is moved. The trail has programmable symmetry, thickness, and length. The other interesting thing about this program is that it is written in Modula-2 (source provided). Author: Richie Bielak CONTENTS OF DISK 31 ------------------- Life Executes the cellular automata game of LIFE in the blitter chip. Uses a 318 by 188 display and runs at 19.8 generations per second. Author: Tomas Rokicki Mandelbrot Latest version of Robert French's mandelbrot program, version 3.00. Author: Robert French MxExample Example of mutual exclusion gadget handling. Author: Davide Cervone RamSpeed Program to measure raw memory speed, comparing internal memory to the external memory. Author: Perry Kivolowitz Set Replacement for the Manx "set" command (to set or change environment variables) with several improvements. Author: Tomas Rokicki Tree Draws a recursive tree (green leafy type, not files). Author: Robert French (original version by W. Balthrop) TxEd Latest demo version of Microsmith's text editor, TxEd. This is the full production version except that files are limited to 10K bytes in length and the search/replace functions are disabled. Also, demo is based on an older version of TxEd, new release has additional features. Author: Charlie Heath VDraw Drawing program, based on freedraw, but now transformed and enhanced beyond recognition. Draws hollow boxes, filled boxes, freehand sketches, lines, circles, and arcs. Also has area fill, text insertion, 16 different line patterns, predefined area fill patterns, a magnify mode, cut and paste, color inversion, erase, grid pattern, and more. This is version 1.08. Author: Stephen Vermeulen Xicon Contains two programs; Xicon which lets you use icons to call up scripts containing CLI commands, and Ticon, which is a simple program to display text files from icons. Author: Pete Goodeve -- =============================================================================== Fred Fish (602) 438-5976 well!fnf ===============================================================================